A stunt girl accidentally becomes the star everyone's hunting for—while secretly plotting her escape to cybernetics.
Marina, a girl from a stunt team, passively assists to everyone's rush to choose the protagonist without whom the filming cannot begin. After weeks of nothing happening, the director, reviewing the footage on the screen, is struck by the photogenic photo of a young girl in an extras scene, which no one can identify. Marina doesn't want to reveal the secret to those on the set because, more pragmatically, her goal is different: admission to cybernetics!
Acting
Mihaela Teleoacă's deadpan dual performance as Marina/Marin.
Writing
Self-aware screenplay mocking socialist film industry machinery.
Direction
Corjos blurring documentary and fiction within the studio walls.
Director
Nicolae Corjos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Ceaușescu's final years, the film's bureaucratic chaos subtly mirrors real state film industry dysfunction.
The 'cybernetics' ambition wasn't random—Romania pursued aggressive computerization policies in the 1980s, making Marina's escape route historically specific.
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